Southwold 2025 – 2

Rood screen, St Edmund, Southwold, March 2025

St Edmund Southwold is a church full of wonderful things, not least the rood screen from the 1480. The dado is painted with thirty-six figures of saints: despite being vandalised by puritan iconoclasts and cleaned in 1930 the spectral faces retain their spiritual power.

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